Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371
Author
Wicksten, Mary K.
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-07-04
3371
1
307
journal article
11755334
Hymenodora glacialis
(
Buchholz, 1874
)
(
Fig. 10H, I
)
Pasiphae glacialis
Buchholz, 1874: 279
, pl. 1, fig. 2.
Hymenodora glacialis
. —
Faxon 1895: 168
. —
Kobyakova 1937: 99
, fig. 3. —
Havens & Rork 1969: 19
. —
Crosnier & Forest 1973: 84
, fig. 25b. —
Butler 1980: 72
. —
Krygier & Pearcy 1981: 86
. —
Chace 1986: 42
, figs. 21K–O. —
Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1989: 115
. —
Hendrickx & Estrada-Navarrete 1996: 117
, fig. 72. —
Wicksten 2002: 136
.
Diagnosis.
Similar to
H
.
frontalis
except exoskeleton membranous, finely pitted. Anterior part of carapace swollen, rostrum barely longer than eye, lower margin convex, with 2–5 dorsal, 0–1 ventral teeth. Carpus of pereopod 1 with conspicuous distal tubercle. Telson with 5–6 pairs dorsolateral spines.
Male
total length
48 mm
, female
45 mm
.
Havens & Rork (1969)
provided a comparison of
H
.
glacialis
and
H
.
gracilis
.
Color in life.
Blood red.
Habitat and depth.
Pelagic, rarely near surface in polar seas but more common at
350–1000 m
; at
2000–5610 m
off
Oregon
.
Range.
Sea of Okhotsk
and
Bering Sea
to
Gulf
of
Panama
,
Chile
and sub-Antarctic
Pacific
,
Arctic region
,
North Atlantic
;
western South Atlantic
,
southwestern Indian Ocean.
Type
locality eastern
Greenland
, 74
˚
N, near edge of pack ice
.